Re: Idea : common dir and tree (Rep:Re: Why not create packages?)

[Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>]

Hi.

In <397DD8BB.A17154CF@mail.nyx.net>,
  on Tue, 25 Jul 2000 20:13:15 +0200,
 Stein Gjoen <sgjoen@mail.nyx.net> wrote:

> Taketoshi Sano wrote:

> > Agreed.  Translated documents may not be "ascii", while it can still be
> > "plain text".  So "text" is more appropriate in that case.
> 
> We seem to have a consensus on text rather than ascii, good.

Thanks.  I prefer it.

> > > /
> > >   usr
> > >     share
> > >        HOWTO     - the HOWTOs in HTML format goes here
> > >          text    - same HOWTOS but as plain text
> > >          PDF     - same HOWTOS but as PDF
> > >          PostScript
> > >          SGML
> > >          HTML
> > 
> > Again, agreed.
> 
> There is a slight problem with the last line, HTML. Originally
> I had thought to keep HOWTOs in HTML format at the root of the
> /usr/share/doc/HOWTO directory which is similar to the older
> /usr/doc/HOWTO. Should we instead keep these
> in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML ? In that case we would have to
> leave pointers in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO as to where the various
> parts have gone.

I have thought that it will be smart to put the pointers in 
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/index,  but well, if many people just use 
only the HTML formatted HOWTO, then the current way (having HTML 
at the root without HTML subdirectory) may be better.

I won't insist on this.

-- 
  Taketoshi Sano: <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>


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